Full Description
Austerity and the Remaking of European Education offers historically and empirically grounded accounts of national educational formations in Europe, at a specific time in their reshaping through encounters with global policy frameworks, and social and economic developments.
The authors explore these issues in the context of different pressures that impact on European education systems - from the constraints established by the European Central Bank and the European Commission across Southern Europe, to the 2008 financial crisis and the increased migration.
The book provides a rigorous theoretical approach to European and national policies, combined with detailed analyses of national educational contexts in England, France, Greece, Hungary and Sweden. These in-depth studies identify major issues of national education policymaking, and explore the complexities of global/national relationships. The economic crisis, the rise of the Left in Greece and of the populist Right in many countries in Europe, questions of cultural and religious diversity, tensions between marketization and inclusion are all brought into focus, offering findings that are of great interest to researchers of education policy, politics and sociology of education alike. In the final section of the book, the authors explore policy alternatives, as embodied in the activities of both governments and non-state actors, such as trade unions and social movements.
Contents
Introduction, Ken Jones (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) and Anna Traianou (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
Part I: Educational Policymaking in Europe since 1986
1. Educational Policymaking in Europe 1986 - 2008: Towards Convergence?, Ken Jones (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) and Nafsika Alexiadou (Umeå University, Sweden)
2. Austerity and the Remaking of Education Policy in Europe since 2008, Ken Jones (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) and Anna Traianou (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
Part II: Educational Policymaking in National Contexts
3. England: A Consolidated Conservatism, Ken Jones (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
4. France: Globalisation and the Republic, Guy Dreux (Institue of Research, Féderation Syndicale Unifiée, France)
5. Hungary: Education Policymaking on the Periphery, György Mészáros (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary ) and Eszter Neumann (King's College, University of London, UK)
6. Sweden: Adjusted to Neoliberalism?, Nafsika Alexiadou (Umeå University, Sweden) and Linda Rönnberg (Umeå University, Sweden)
7. Greece: Education Policymaking in Extreme Austerity, Anna Traianou (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
Part III: Questioning European Educational Policy
Conclusion: The Contested European Educational Space, Ken Jones (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) and Anna Traianou (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
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